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Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By : Reinier van Altena
Book Image

Democratizing Application Development with Betty Blocks

By: Reinier van Altena

Overview of this book

This practical guide on no-code development with Betty Blocks will take you through the different features, no-code functionalities, and capabilities of the Betty Blocks platform using real-world use cases. The book will equip you with the tools to develop business apps based on various data models, business processes, and more. You’ll begin with an introduction to the basic concepts of the Betty Blocks no-code platform, such as developing IT solutions on various use cases including reporting apps, data tracking apps, workflows, and business processes. After getting to grips with the basics, you’ll explore advanced concepts such as building powerful applications that impact the business straight away with no-code application development and quickly creating prototypes. The concluding chapters will help you get a solid understanding of rapid application development, building customer portals, building dynamic web apps, drag-and-drop front ends, visual modelling capabilities, and complex data models. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of building your own applications as a citizen developer using the Betty Blocks no-code platform.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Citizen Development
4
Part 2: First Steps on the Betty Blocks Platform
10
Part 3: Building Your First Application
15
Part 4: The Pro-Coder

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the collaboration between different personas to develop an application. We assumed that it was going to be a somewhat larger application, so you needed a small team to make this successful. The personas in this team were a project manager, business users, citizen developers, no-coders, pro-coders, and IT.

The added value of a no-code platform such as Betty Blocks for a pro-coder is another topic we talked about. Pro-coders can win a lot of time back by utilizing the platform for specific use cases, such as portals and internal CRUD applications. This could increase their development speed by up to 75%.

We also learned that pro-coders can help citizen developers and no-coders. They can add extra no-code functionality to the platform by using code so that other developers can do more with the platform. They can also help by performing security checks during development.

Lastly, we spoke about adding code to the platform to create new...